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  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Aziloth Books)
    Thomas de Quincy
    Written in 1821, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' brought literary fame and not a little notoriety to Thomas de Quincy. It blew the lid on widespread opium addiction in Regency England, 'outing' such worthies as Dr Abernethy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wilberforce. 'Confessions' recounts the author's privileged public school days, his...
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    10,98 €

  • The Art Of Conversation And Other Papers (1863)
    Thomas De Quincy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    36,45 €

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Thomas de Quincy
    This vintage book comprises ’Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’; an autobiographical account of Thomas De Quincey’s opium addiction and the effect that it had on his life. This text was the first major book that De Quincey published, and one that made him famous in a very short period of time. De Quincey’s Confessions assumed an authoritative influence on the public, as wel...
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    45,53 €

  • Autobiographical Sketches
    Thomas De Quincy
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    36,21 €

  • Miscellaneous Essays
    Thomas De Quincy
    'Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.'-Thomas de Quincey Miscellaneous Essays (1851) is a collection of essays by Thomas De Quincey, who has been called '...one of the greatest prose stylists of the English Romantic era.' It has also been sai...
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    16,90 €

  • Second Paper On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts
    Thomas De Quincy
    'If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.' -Thomas De Quincey, A Second Paper on Murder(1839)A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1839) is the second in a series of three essays Thomas De Quince...
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    7,39 €

  • On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts
    Thomas De Quincy
    'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed-a knife-a purse-and a dark lane...' -Thomas De QuincyIn On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827), Thomas De Quincy used a series of murders, allegedly committed in London in 1811 by John Williams, as the centerpiece of a satirical essay that whi...
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    7,62 €